Wringer



April '7, 1925.

S. LEECH WRINGEB Filed April 1, 1922 2 Sheets-Shut 1 Patented Apr. '7, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I STANLEY LEECH, F DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

WRINGER.

Application filed April 1,

with this type of wringer that we have further improvements.

First, I have simplified the construction of the quick release device, not only from a manufacturing standpoint, but such change has made it more sensitive so that a minimum movement of the device will cause instant release of the pressure roll of the clothes wringer.

Second, associated with the quick release device is means for increasing and decreasing the tension of a sprin associated with the pressure roll of the wringer, said means being movable with a portion of the quick release device when the same is actuated to release spring pressure, otherwise the quick release device retains said means in an operative position for increasing 'or decreasing spring pressure on the wringer roll.

Third, my invention includes novel water deflectors and sheds which are disposed at the ends of the wringer rolls to prevent any great quantity of water from reaching bear ings, springs, gear wheels and the like at the ends of the wringer rolls and it is in consequence of these water deflectors or sheds that the enumerated parts possess greater longevity. Also, the wringer can be more easily retained in a sanitary condition and clothes are prevented from being wound about and injured by spindles or movable end parts of the wringer.

Fourth, my invention further includes a shiftable drain board or member permitting of clothes and water being delivered at a desired side of the 'wringer, and novel means is employed for-locking a drain board or member in said. position.

Fifth, my invention includes a somewhat better construction than disclosed in our pending application and such construction 1922. Serial No. 548,674;

will be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed. Reference will now be had to the drawings, wherein-- A Figure .1 is a front elevation of the clothes wringer partly broken away and partly in longitudinal section;

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross sectional vieiv taken on the line IIII of Fig.1;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line IIIIII of Fig. 1;

Fig. 1 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view taken on the line IV-IV of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged vertical cross sectional view of the quick release device of the wringer; I

Fig. 6 is an enlarged cross'sectional view of a spring connection forming part of the wringer, and

Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional view of the same. c

In the drawings, the reference numeral 1 denotes a one piece wringer frame that is substantially inverted U shape in elevation, said frame having opposed arms 2 and 3 and said frame is substantially channel shaped in cross section with the open sides thereof confronting and with the front and rear walls of the frame provided with a multiplicitv of openings 4. which reduce weight and facilitate casting or otherwise making the frame.

In the arms Zand 3 are lower journals or bearings 5 and S-retained in said arms by the loop ends 7 of a transversely disposed member 8 which has its looped ends detachably held in the lower ends of the arms 2 and 3 by screws 9 or other fastening means. The journals 5 are slotted or bifurcated to receive the spindles 10 and 11 of a lower wringer roll 12 and the spindle 10 has a gear wheel 13, while the spindle 11 is adapted to receive a crank to be driven by hand or be coupled to a motor or other power devices.

Above the journals 5 are inverted journals 14 for the spindles 15 of an upper wringer pressure roll 16 and one of said spindles has a gear wheel 17 meshing with the gear wheel 13, said gear wheels being designed so that the gear wheels 17 may be re'adily moved into and out of mesh with the gear wheel 13. These gear wheels may behoused within a casing 18 forming part of the arm 2 and provided with a detachable cover 19.

The confronting ends of the journals'5, 6

and 14 are recessed, as at to receive coiled expansion springs 21 and the expansive and t, is spring is adapted to be placed under tension and serve both ends of the pressure roll 16 so as to bodily hold said roll relative to the roll 12, the single spring being in contradistinction to separate springs that are .at times used in the arms 2 and 3 of the wringer frame.

Reference will now be had to that feature of my invention which includes the quick release device for placing the spring 22 under tension and quickly releasing such tension when occasion so requires.

Mounted on or in the arched wall. 24 of the frame 1 for instance by screw threads 25, is the lower end of a tubular post 26 having its upper end provided with outwardly projecting diametrically dis osed studs or pins 27. The 0st 26 is cylin rical and slidably mounted t ereon is a quick release sleeve 28 having opposed segment shaped enlargements 29 affording interior recesses 30 and in these recesses are tapered supports 31 for the pins 27 The ta ered supports 31 taper inwardly from the ower ends of said supports to the upper ends thereof and it is on the upper ends of said supports that the pins 27 rest. The supports 31 cooperate with side walls of the recesses 30 in providing grooves affording clearance for the outer ends of the pins 27, at the side of thesupports, when shifted from beneath the pins, and this is accomplished by partially rotating the sleeve 28 on the post 26 in either direction, such movement bein' facilitated by 0 posed handles or pro ections 32 carried y the sleeve 28. 1

Adjustable in the u per end of the sleeve 28 is a screw 33 that is in threaded engagement with the closed upper end of said sleeve, said screw having its outer end provided with a knurled head 34 and its inner end with a stem 35 that slidably fits in the post 26 and prevents lateral displacement of the lower end of the screw. The lower end of the stem 35 is reduced and provided with an annular groove 37 to receive -a split ring or retaining member 36 which is employed for holding astirrup 38 on the lower end of the stem 35, and said stirrup loosely engages the central raised portion 23 of the spring 22. The stem 35 is rotatable relative to the stirrup and the lower end of said stem bears on the central portion of the spring 22 to flex said spring and place it under tension whenthe screw 33 is rotated. The expansive force of the spring through the connection of the .sleeve 28 with the screw 33 holds the supsure on the roll 16, itis only necessary to strike one of the handles 32 and the sleeve 28 will be partially turned, in one direction or the other, thereby moving the supports 31 from under the pins 27, permitting the sleeve 28 to be raised, and thus release the tension of the spring 22. Whenthe sleeve 28 is shifted upwardly the grooves at the sides of the supports 31 afiord clearance for the pins 27 and with said supports longitudinally of the sleeve, it is far easier to locate said pins on the supports than if the support were very short or in-like. The opposed handles 32 rmit of t e quick release device being easily reset and it is apparent from the novel construction of the same that the device is very sensitive and consequently an exceedingly quick release of the pressure roll 16 may be accomplished.

Considering another feature of the invention, reference will be had to Figs. 1 and 2 showingwater deflectors at the ends of the rolls 12 and 16. The water deflectors are in the form of slotted and apertured artitions 39, said partitions, being slotted: as at 40 to provide clearance "for the spindles 15, and apertured, as at 41, to provide clearance for the spindles 10 and 11. The partitions are set in the open sides of the arms 2 and 3 and said partitions are transversely corrugated or roughened so as to prevent wet clothes from adhering thereto. At the lower ends of the partitions are water shedding flanges 42 projecting inwardly under the roll 12, and at the sides of said roll porting bars 46 which are adapted to engage under the flanges 42 of the partitions 39 and on the loop ends 7 of the transverse member 8. One of the bars-46 has recesses 47 adjacent its ends to receive a spring pressed detent or catch 48 carried by the journal or bearing 5, and said detent extends through the partition 39 at the bearing 5 and through the detachable cover of the casing 18. By pulling on the outer end of the detent 48 it may be detracted and the drain apron or pan may be shifted from the position shown in Fig. 2 to a reverse position, and in either position water wrung from clothes will drain back into the tub or receptacle above which the wringer is mounted.

While in the drawin s there is illustrated a wrin er which has een put into practice an so far found satisfactory, yet it is to be understood that the various features of my invention are susceptible to such changes as are permissible by the appended claim.

What I claim is A quick tension release device for a clothes Wringer of the roll type having a stationary frame and a tension screw for regulating the tension of a roll, said device comprising a tubular post mounted on said frame wlth post at screw-threaded enga ement with said screw.

and surrounding sai post, enlargements on said sleeve affording recesses in the inner wall of said sleeve and into which recesses said pins extend, and supports in the sleeve recesses and extending longitudinally thereof to co-operate with the wall of said sleeve in forming guide grooves for said pins, said pins resting normally on said supports and adapted to be shifted off of saidsupports by said sleeve to permit a quick movement of said sleeve.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y

STANLEY LEECH. Witnesses CHARLES W. STAUFFIGEK, KARL H. BUTLER. 

